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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2007
quote of the day
"When a ball dreams, it dreams it's a Frisbee."
— Stancil Johnson, disc golf historian
fact of the day
Ultimate frisbee was first played in 1968 by a group of students at Columbia High School in Maplewood, N.J.The first official rules were recorded in 1970.
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ODD NEWS Unknown wild animal scares N.J. residents
TRENTON, N.J. — Residents are used of rural parts of New Jersey are used to seeing wild turkey, deer and even an occasional black bear. But the possibility of another kind of wild animal on the prowl has some people worried.
Residents of the community of Vineland reported seeing a large black animal with a cat-like long tail walking through the fields and woods during the weekend.
"I knew by the size that it was not a house cat. It wasn't a tiny dog, it looked like some kind of wild cat," said Zoe Paraskevas, who
Felicia Fiocchi said she spotted something in the field behind their house on Sunday.
photographed it Saturday. "I just gill chills. I said 'Oh, my God!'"
"I can't tell you if it was a panther, but I can tell you that it wasn't a domesticated house cat," said Fliochi. She's worried about the possibility of a dangerous cat roaming the woods and fields where her four children sometimes play.
HUTCHINSON — Egrets are beautiful to behold with their snowy-white feathers and long, curving necks, but that doesn't count for much when thousands of them settle in Hutchinson each spring with noise, odors and other nuisances.
A wildlife officer visited the area three times during the weekend and found nothing to indicate a panther was in the area, said Darlene Yuhas, a spokeswoman for the state's Department of Environmental Protection.
However, the migratory birds are protected by federal law so efforts to coexist with them require some imagination.
Egrets bring noise, odor, nuisance to Kansas town
Police Chief Dick Heitschmidt and Lt. Troy Hoover have been on "egret patrol" in recent days, tying shiny ribbons to trees, placing owl decos in places where the birds
roost and occasionally firing flares to scare the birds away. They also plan to deploy floating balloons.
"The chief and I really dressed the place up." Hoover said of one neighborhood. "Last year, they just destroyed that area."
It's challenging work. After clearing the egrets from one area Monday night, the officers found them roosting in another part of the city, and by the next morning the birds had moved on to still another neighborhood.
During a heat wave last summer, many young egrets were killed when they wandered onto busy streets in search of water.
Associated Press
Big slick
Julie Scheidegger/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fourth grader Matthew Gordon sits with a root beer and stacks of chips as cards are dealt at the poker table during prairie days at St. John LaLantle Catholic School in Blue Springs, Mo, on Wednesday.
Dressed the part, students square danced, dipped candles and ground corn as activities to compliment the state history curriculum. Prairie days have been a school tradition for the last 12 years. The event is usually held outside, but due to rain, activities took place in the parish center.
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RY JENNIFER MOHWINKLE
IF YOU HAD TO BE ON ONE REALITY SHOW, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
MITCHELL PAPISH Cleanwater series
Clearwater senior
"None. I believe reality TV should not exist."
SEAN HILL Lawrence seni
"I would be on 'Tiny House' because I would actually watch that one."
BRYCE CLARKE
St. Petersburg, Fla., sophomore
"Is 'The Real World' still on? Because
I love how stupid those kids are."
AMBER LORD Wichita junior
"I'd be on 'Road Rules' because you get to do awesome things and get paid."
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Friday: Rent-A-Sig at the Hawk
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on campus
The KU Bookstore Sidewalk Sale will start at 9 a.m. at the East Plaza in the Kansas Union.
The Spencer Museum Sidewalk Sale will start at 10 a.m. in front of the Spencer Museum of Art.
Rebecca Crosthwait will present the lecture "Politics of Immigration from Michoacan, Mexico, to the United States" at noon at 318 Bailey Hall.
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Free tea and treats will be served at Tea Time at 3 p.m. at the Union Lobby in the Kansas Union.
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Jeehyun Lee and Alicia Jenkins, Kansas State University, will preset the even "Tea & Talk: A Scientific Analysis of Green Tea Tasting" at 4 p.m. at the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union.
Kevin Burke, University of Houston, will present the lecture "Discovery of Plume Generation Zones (PGZs) at the Core/Mantle Boundary and some implications of that discovery for the understanding of the long-term history of the Earth's Interior" at 4 p.m. at 103 Lindley Hall.
Max Falkenstien will hold a book signing at 5:30 p.m.at Jayhawk Central at Edwards Campus.
CAMPUS KU Public Safety Office to hand out bike lights
Beginning in the fall, all incoming freshmen will be charged a flat tuition rate for four straight years. It's called the Tuition Compact, and details can be found at www2.ku.edu/~oirp.
The KU Public Safety Office will be giving away bike headlight and taillight sets today from 2 to 4 p.m. on Wescow Beach to anyone who has a bike and needs the lights. The giveaway was originally scheduled from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
— Erick R. Schmidt
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